Classical mechanics

Since the human organism is itself an open system, we are naturally curious about the behavior of other open systems with fluxes of matter, energy or information.

As the title implies, this book provides an introduction to thermodynamics for students on degree and HND courses in engineering.

This book describes the basic principles of plasticity for students and engineers who wish to perform plasticity analyses in their professional lives, and provides an introduction to the application of plasticity theories and basic continuum mechanics in metal forming processes.

From the discovery of fire to that of the atom, the development of human societies has largely been based on the conquest of energy.

The goal of this book is to present the new trend of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the 21 st Century.

Originally published in 1951, this book is a straightforward account of the British nationalized coal industry in the first half of the twentieth century.

This textbook presents the fundamentals of audio coding, used to compress audio and music signals, using Python programs both as examples to illustrate the principles and for experiments for the reader.

Vortex motion is one of the basic states of a flowing continuum.

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth.

With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion.

Civil Engineering and Energy-Environment focuses on the research of civil engineering, environment resources and energy materials.

Modelling Fluid Flow presents invited lectures, workshop summaries and a selection of papers from a recent international conference CMFF '03 on fluid technology.

The present volume aims to be a comprehensive survey on the derivation of the equations of motion, both in General Relativity as well as in alternative gravity theories.

Explores Worldwide Trends Involving the Production and Use of BiofuelsWith the depletion of oil resources as well as the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels, there is much interest in alternative energy sources.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries.

This exceptionally well-organized book uses solved problems and exercises to help readers understand the underlying concepts of classical mechanics; accordingly, many of the exercises included are of a conceptual rather than practical nature.

Oil and gas industries apply several techniques for assessing and mitigating the risks that are inherent in its operations.

Ceramic Hydrogen Storage Materials presents the physical, chemical, physico-chemical properties of ceramics as hydrogen storage materials.

This introductory text covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on or related to astronautics.

Nur durch selbständiges Lösen von Aufgaben kann der Student ein tieferes Verständnis für die Mechanik erlangen.

Cyclotron Waves in Plasma is a four-chapter text that covers the basic physical concepts of the theory of cyclotron waves and cyclotron instabilities, brought about by the existence of steady or alternating plasma currents flowing perpendicular to the magnetic field.

This workshop comprises part of the four-year (1985-1988) non-nuclear energy R & D programme for the development of renewable energy sources which is being implemented by the Commission of the European Communities.

Originally published in 1984, this volume examines the consequences of increasing energy prices on agricultural production.

Die als "Aktive Steuerungstechnologie" oder "CCV-Technologie" bekannten Flugzeugentwurfskonzeptionen zur Steigerung der Flugleistungen verändern die Voraussetzungen, die bisher bei der flugmechanischen Auslegung von Flugzeugen zu beachten waren.

This edited work covers diesel fuel chemistry in a systematic fashion from initial fuel production to the tail pipe exhaust.

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.

The research and development activities in energy conversion and storage are playing a significant role in our daily lives owing to the rising interest in clean energy technologies to alleviate the fossil-fuel crisis.

At the VIIth International Congress on Rheology, which was held in Goteborg in 1976, Proceedings were for the first time printed in advance and distributed to all participants at the time of the Congress.

The field of elliptic functions, apart from its own mathematical beauty, has many applications in physics in a variety of topics, such as string theory or integrable systems.

This book briefly discusses the main provisions of the theory of modeling.

Most heat transfer texts include the same material: conduction, convection, and radiation.

This proceedings volume gathers selected, revised papers presented at the X International Meeting on Lorentzian Geometry (GeLoCor 2021), virtually held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on February 1-5, 2021.

The author's approach is one of continuum models of the aerodynamic flow interacting with a flexible structure whose behavior is governed by partial differential equations.

The rapid growth of literature on convective heat and mass transfer through porous media has brought both engineering and fundamental knowledge to a new state of completeness and depth.

This textbook comprehensively covers the fundamentals behind mathematical modeling of engineering problems to obtain the required solution.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Rising oil costs have stimulated significant interest in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) as a method for producing a synthetic petroleum substitute.

Siltation in reservoirs has become an important problem when dams are getting older and stop functioning when the sediment has accumulated to a certain extent.

The 2014 International Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering (ICEEE 2014) was held September 21-22, 2014 in Hong Kong.

This book deals with complex fluid characterization of oil and gas reservoirs, emphasizing the importance of PVT parameters for practical application in reservoir simulation and management.

This will be a substantial revision of a good selling text for upper division/first graduate courses in biomedical transport phenomena, offered in many departments of biomedical and chemical engineering.

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This book is a systematic introduction to astrometry and celestial mechanics.

This book presents mathematical fundaments and results on sloshing in an upright circular cylindrical tank with semi-analytical solutions.

Recent developments in the fields of energy, transport and industrial engineering have led to the emergence of new types of structures and infrastructures subject to variable stresses, for which the usual methods for designing pile foundations are now inadequate.